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Lights, camera, practice: A Final Four trip to remember
When you are a fledgling journalist, you don’t get many chances like these. I knew this three months ago, walking into Ford Field in Detroit, Mich., for the fourth time in two years. All three previous trips were for CMU football games as a beat writer, including two Motor City Bowls. This trip was similar in [...]
Continue reading...Blistering the eyes: My job at The Grand Rapids Press, and how it’s helping me
Thursday, July 16, 2009
It’s been about one week since my site launched, and I realized I haven’t written too much about The Grand Rapids Press. So here’s everything in a nutshell. I’m spending my summer in Grand Rapids, Mich., located on the western side of the state with a population around 190,000. The Press is one of eight Michigan [...]
Continue reading...A beautiful, sunny day in Grand Haven, Michigan
Saturday, July 11, 2009
PORTFOLIO UPDATE +9 Photo Having been born and raised in Saginaw, on the eastern side of Michigan, I have not had the chance to experience much of what West Michigan has to offer until this summer. It is pretty safe to say I was missing out on some of Michigan’s finer places. A summer day in Grand Haven [...]
Continue reading...Who am I?
The future of news media has never been more exciting to me.
I am a multifaceted young journalist currently working as online sports producer at The Arizona Republic. I interned at The Grand Rapids Press over the summer, and previously served as 2009-10 editor in chief of Central Michigan Life, the award-winning student publication of Central Michigan University.
I was named 2009 College Journalist of the Year by the Michigan Press Association, and graduated from CMU in May 2010 with a degree in journalism and media design. I spent the summer of 2009 at The Grand Rapids Press as a copy desk intern, and summer 2008 at The Saginaw News as a metro reporting intern.
Monday, July 20, 2009
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